Travel Agent Jobs, Leisure Jobs, Tourism Jobs
With the shift from people booking holidays and travel in the High Street, travel agencies have had to find other ways to reach their potential customers.
Thousands of people are booking their own holidays now, there are many travel agencies that work entirely online. Some of these businesses have no physical travel agency shop anywhere on the street - and the travel agents are all work at home people, working from home full-time.
Some of these offer employed positions that are home-based. Some travel agencies are self-employed or a franchise.
In the past decade, the travel, leisure and tourism industries have really opened up the number of work from home opportunities, harnessing the power of the Internet and enabling the workers to work flexibly from home.
Home-based travel agents have experienced massive and strong growth over the last decade, and there are already more than 35,000 of them worldwide - and growing. A small number of work at home travel agents even earn $100,000 or more a year, which obviously takes some hard work, but it IS possible! The average pay for a travel agent is $32,000.
As a work from home travel agent, your job would involve:
- booking flights
- booking hotel rooms
- making travel arrangements for holiday-makers
- organizing business travellers' schedules
What You Need to be a Work at Home Travel Agent
- To work at home as a travel agent, you'll certainly need:
- a high-speed Internet connection
- landline
- cell phone
- a working knowledge of popular holiday destinations.
There are some contacts below (for members) for work at home jobs as a travel agent.